POSTER: An Artificial Intelligence of Things (AIOT) based Assistive Smart Glass for the Visually Impaired
A. Mustapha
The blind and visually impaired constantly face challenges interacting with the society and performing common tasks. This project aims to develop a functional and cost-effective assistive device to aid the blind and visually impaired improve their quality of life as well as independence. The AIOT Smart Glass (SG) consists of a camera module to capture images and feeds them to the raspberry pi for analysis such as screen description, object recognition, reading printed text, etc. The AIOT smart glass is controlled easily using the Respeaker 2-Mics Pi Hat for voice commands or button taps which is directly integrated with a conversational chatbot for seamless usage. It has an additional feature of facial recognition; assisting users to recognize the faces of their families and other close members. The output of the system is passed as audio response through an earphone to the user. Results shows that the AIOT smart glass take an average of about 5 secs to responds to query in the presence of good internet availability.